Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 259 289
Rank change year-on-year -86 +30 +9
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 607 556 613
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 1.13% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 1.27% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 319 255 292
10th Percentile £36,250 £44,098 £42,608
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,875 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +2.86% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,271 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.85% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,115 43,732 58,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.39% 88.90% 82.19%
Number of salaries quoted 59,537 24,546 31,188
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,997
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 14 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -78 538 £60,000 -16.96% 1,343
London -32 304 £71,121 -11.10% 885
UK excluding London -134 247 £59,271 -5.17% 546
Work from Home -10 192 £58,541 -16.37% 587
North of England -39 64 £60,000 -22.58% 104
South East -85 59 £42,000 -32.80% 146
North West -1 50 £61,500 -8.89% 55
Midlands -41 41 £48,500 -24.81% 76
South West -49 38 £57,500 -8.00% 55
West Midlands -25 31 £48,500 -15.60% 43
East of England -29 24 £70,000 +6.87% 57
Scotland +14 13 £77,500 +82.35% 62
Yorkshire -41 13 £57,500 -29.23% 37
East Midlands -37 10 £38,347 -50.52% 33
Northern Ireland -82 5 - - 32
Wales -72 3 £65,000 +13.18% 14
North East -71 1 - - 12

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 45 (7.41%) Confluence
2 22 (3.62%) CMS
3 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.66%) Drupal
4 4 (0.66%) WordPress
5 3 (0.49%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.16%) Apache
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 20 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (3.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 15 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.15%) Moqups
6 5 (0.82%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.49%) Trello
8 2 (0.33%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.33%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.16%) MadCap Flare
9 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 19 (3.13%) Workfront
2 14 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.82%) SAP PSCD
4 5 (0.82%) Shopify
5 3 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.49%) iTrent
6 2 (0.33%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.16%) Eikon
7 1 (0.16%) Magento
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.16%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 1 (0.16%) RMDS
7 1 (0.16%) SAP ECC
7 1 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 76 (12.52%) SaaS
2 69 (11.37%) AWS
3 37 (6.10%) Azure
4 20 (3.29%) iPaaS
5 16 (2.64%) Power Platform
6 15 (2.47%) Figma
6 15 (2.47%) GCP
6 15 (2.47%) Google Workspace
7 11 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (1.65%) Anthropic Claude
9 7 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (0.99%) GitHub
10 6 (0.99%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (0.82%) Copilot Studio
11 5 (0.82%) Power Automate
11 5 (0.82%) Zapier
12 4 (0.66%) Amazon Bedrock
12 4 (0.66%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.28%) HTTP
2 23 (3.79%) Broadband
3 11 (1.81%) Firewall
3 11 (1.81%) WAN
4 9 (1.48%) DNS
4 9 (1.48%) LAN
5 8 (1.32%) SD-WAN
6 6 (0.99%) DHCP
6 6 (0.99%) MPLS
6 6 (0.99%) NX-OS
7 4 (0.66%) Internet
7 4 (0.66%) Multicast
7 4 (0.66%) SAN
7 4 (0.66%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.49%) CTI
8 3 (0.49%) Intranet
8 3 (0.49%) Network Security
8 3 (0.49%) VPN
8 3 (0.49%) VSAT
8 3 (0.49%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.79%) Metadata
2 16 (2.64%) Power BI
3 8 (1.32%) Big Data
3 8 (1.32%) SQL Server
4 6 (0.99%) BigQuery
5 4 (0.66%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.49%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (0.49%) MySQL
6 3 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.33%) Db2
7 2 (0.33%) GIS
7 2 (0.33%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.16%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.16%) Mixpanel
8 1 (0.16%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.16%) Redis
8 1 (0.16%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 71 (11.70%) JIRA
2 12 (1.98%) Git
3 10 (1.65%) Claude Code
3 10 (1.65%) GitLab
4 9 (1.48%) Postman
4 9 (1.48%) Selenium
5 7 (1.15%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.82%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.66%) JUnit
8 2 (0.33%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.33%) TestNG
9 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 190 (31.30%) Social Skills
2 182 (29.98%) Finance
3 166 (27.35%) Marketing
4 94 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
5 79 (13.01%) Law
6 70 (11.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 66 (10.87%) Banking
8 58 (9.56%) Presentation Skills
9 41 (6.75%) Influencing Skills
9 41 (6.75%) Manufacturing
9 41 (6.75%) Retail
10 40 (6.59%) Organisational Skills
11 36 (5.93%) Public Sector
12 25 (4.12%) Electronics
13 24 (3.95%) Legal
14 21 (3.46%) Publishing
15 20 (3.29%) Telecoms
16 15 (2.47%) Pharmaceutical
17 12 (1.98%) Financial Institution
18 9 (1.48%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 161 (26.52%) Product Manager
2 95 (15.65%) Lead
3 72 (11.86%) Senior
4 50 (8.24%) Product Owner
5 48 (7.91%) Software Engineer
6 36 (5.93%) Lead Software Engineer
7 34 (5.60%) Senior Manager
8 27 (4.45%) Development Engineer
8 27 (4.45%) Software Development Engineer
9 23 (3.79%) Product Lead
10 20 (3.29%) Senior Product Manager
11 18 (2.97%) Marketing Manager
12 15 (2.47%) Development Manager
12 15 (2.47%) Product Marketing Manager
12 15 (2.47%) Senior Software Engineer
13 14 (2.31%) Architect
14 13 (2.14%) Business Analyst
14 13 (2.14%) Technical Manager
15 12 (1.98%) Delivery Manager
15 12 (1.98%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (6.10%) REST
2 22 (3.62%) HTML
3 15 (2.47%) Google Maps API
4 13 (2.14%) React
5 10 (1.65%) Terraform
5 10 (1.65%) XML
6 9 (1.48%) LangChain
7 8 (1.32%) CSS
7 8 (1.32%) PyTorch
7 8 (1.32%) Spring
7 8 (1.32%) TensorFlow
8 7 (1.15%) Spring Boot
9 6 (0.99%) Pandas
10 5 (0.82%) CrewAI
10 5 (0.82%) LlamaIndex
10 5 (0.82%) SAP Fiori
11 4 (0.66%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (0.66%) LangGraph
11 4 (0.66%) Node.js
11 4 (0.66%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 175 (28.83%) Product Ownership
2 42 (6.92%) Management Information System
3 38 (6.26%) AI Agents
4 33 (5.44%) Social Media
5 30 (4.94%) Public Cloud
6 29 (4.78%) Onboarding
7 21 (3.46%) Marketing Technology
8 19 (3.13%) Over-the-Top Content
9 16 (2.64%) Augmented Reality
10 15 (2.47%) Virtual Reality
10 15 (2.47%) Web Conferencing
11 14 (2.31%) Data Centre
11 14 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (2.14%) Biopharmaceutical
12 13 (2.14%) Cloud Native
13 12 (1.98%) Online Banking
13 12 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (1.81%) Driving Licence
14 11 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
15 10 (1.65%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.97%) Linux
2 17 (2.80%) Windows
3 4 (0.66%) Unix
3 4 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.16%) Android
5 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.16%) CentOS
5 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (51.57%) Roadmaps
2 205 (33.77%) Agile
3 166 (27.35%) Product Roadmap
4 162 (26.69%) AI
5 151 (24.88%) Stakeholder Management
6 143 (23.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 124 (20.43%) Decision-Making
8 109 (17.96%) Product Strategy
9 108 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
10 104 (17.13%) Customer Experience
11 95 (15.65%) Product Vision
12 91 (14.99%) Project Management
13 88 (14.50%) Analytics
14 87 (14.33%) Software Engineering
15 83 (13.67%) User Stories
16 82 (13.51%) Product Backlog
17 72 (11.86%) Coaching
17 72 (11.86%) Strategic Roadmap
18 71 (11.70%) Backlog Prioritisation
19 70 (11.53%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 47 (7.74%) Java
2 44 (7.25%) Python
3 16 (2.64%) SQL
4 13 (2.14%) JavaScript
5 12 (1.98%) TypeScript
6 11 (1.81%) C++
7 10 (1.65%) PowerShell
8 5 (0.82%) ABAP
8 5 (0.82%) Bash
9 4 (0.66%) C#
9 4 (0.66%) R
10 3 (0.49%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.49%) PHP
11 2 (0.33%) Perl
11 2 (0.33%) XPath
12 1 (0.16%) C
Qualifications
1 153 (25.21%) Degree
2 44 (7.25%) Master's Degree
3 32 (5.27%) MBA
3 32 (5.27%) Security Cleared
4 27 (4.45%) SC Cleared
5 14 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.65%) HND
6 10 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (1.65%) PMP
7 9 (1.48%) HNC
7 9 (1.48%) PhD
8 8 (1.32%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (1.15%) CSPO
10 6 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.99%) CCNA
10 6 (0.99%) MCSE
11 5 (0.82%) SAP Certification
12 4 (0.66%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.66%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (6.75%) QA
2 17 (2.80%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.47%) SLA
4 14 (2.31%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.32%) GDPR
5 8 (1.32%) PMO
6 3 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.33%) DICOM
7 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.33%) HL7
7 2 (0.33%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.33%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.33%) NIST
7 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.16%) GRC
8 1 (0.16%) PERC
8 1 (0.16%) SEPA
8 1 (0.16%) TARGET2
System Software
1 10 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (1.48%) Docker
2 9 (1.48%) Firmware
3 6 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.99%) vSphere
4 5 (0.82%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.16%) KVM
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (1.65%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.99%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.49%) WSUS
4 2 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (0.33%) Kibana
5 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.16%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.16%) Ansible
5 1 (0.16%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.16%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 51 (8.40%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.11%) Salesforce
3 25 (4.12%) Google
4 22 (3.62%) Adobe
5 17 (2.80%) OpenAI
6 16 (2.64%) Cisco
7 15 (2.47%) Facebook
8 13 (2.14%) Oracle
8 13 (2.14%) SAP
9 12 (1.98%) Workday
10 10 (1.65%) VMware
11 6 (0.99%) Fortinet
11 6 (0.99%) Juniper
12 5 (0.82%) FIS
12 5 (0.82%) YouTube
13 3 (0.49%) CA Agile Central
13 3 (0.49%) Civica
13 3 (0.49%) iManage
13 3 (0.49%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.49%) ServiceNow